Numerical Study of Wind Resource Assessment of a Complex Terrain
Wind resource assessment of a complex terrain like Narvik area in North Norway, was carried outusing computational fluid dynamics based numerical approach. The research work is aimed at understanding the effects of different operating and geometric variables such as terrain size, surface roughness a...
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crsagepubl:10.1260/0309-524x.38.2.139 2023-05-15T17:14:07+02:00 Numerical Study of Wind Resource Assessment of a Complex Terrain Polanco, Geanette Muhammad, S. Virk 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1260/0309-524x.38.2.139 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1260/0309-524X.38.2.139 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Wind Engineering volume 38, issue 2, page 139-146 ISSN 0309-524X 2048-402X Energy Engineering and Power Technology Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment journal-article 2014 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1260/0309-524x.38.2.139 2022-04-14T04:52:42Z Wind resource assessment of a complex terrain like Narvik area in North Norway, was carried outusing computational fluid dynamics based numerical approach. The research work is aimed at understanding the effects of different operating and geometric variables such as terrain size, surface roughness as well as the height of atmospheric boundary layer on the resultant wind profile in complex terrains. Numerical results were also compared with the field data from two meteorological stations located at different locations in the surroundings of the Narvik area. The comparison was done for a short period from October-November 2012. Different scenarios based on five domains (terrains) extensions, three roughness scales and two boundary layers heights were numerically analysed. Results show that for a specific velocity direction the selection of domain has the major influence on the simulated wind field when compared with the roughness scale used and the boundary layer. A good agreement between the simulation results and the reported experimental data for the two selected locations was found. Article in Journal/Newspaper Narvik Narvik North Norway SAGE Publications (via Crossref) Narvik ENVELOPE(17.427,17.427,68.438,68.438) Norway Wind Engineering 38 2 139 146 |
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Wind resource assessment of a complex terrain like Narvik area in North Norway, was carried outusing computational fluid dynamics based numerical approach. The research work is aimed at understanding the effects of different operating and geometric variables such as terrain size, surface roughness as well as the height of atmospheric boundary layer on the resultant wind profile in complex terrains. Numerical results were also compared with the field data from two meteorological stations located at different locations in the surroundings of the Narvik area. The comparison was done for a short period from October-November 2012. Different scenarios based on five domains (terrains) extensions, three roughness scales and two boundary layers heights were numerically analysed. Results show that for a specific velocity direction the selection of domain has the major influence on the simulated wind field when compared with the roughness scale used and the boundary layer. A good agreement between the simulation results and the reported experimental data for the two selected locations was found. |
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